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Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

I guess high frequency traders might be interested too then.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

I expect some early customers to be trading houses that want a faster connection for HFT.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Has a pentest been performed on this network? How does one enter into an early beta of it?

They just launched the first couple satillites. Its all internal testing on non-finished hardware as of right now. Far away from an beta.

I think they have 57/60 working. I assume this is a testing phase. 12k planned

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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I'm really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I've almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I'm not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I'm often…

Why not just use any of the number of existing satellite telecoms providers?

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

Pretty neat. I guess they could vendor out to Google. GCP Spanner relies on reliable low ping fiber between zones so this might be a clear throughput win for them.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #11
post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

I guess high frequency traders might be interested too then.

Aren't they all just across the street form wall street with exactly the same network ping as everyone else?

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

I thought I read somewhere that they cancelled the plans to use lasers and were going to use radio instead. But now I can't find anything about it.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #14

I'm really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I've almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I'm not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I'm often…

Why not just use any of the number of existing satellite telecoms providers?

I do. I have a Garmin inReach, and it helps. But it takes ~5 minutes for one exchange of a text message. It's not enough to diagnose and fix a complex problem remotely.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

I wonder how the Starlink latency compares to the current microwave technologies used by high frequency trading firms. Any slight latency improvement is a game-changer in the HFT industry.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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post #14

I'm really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I've almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I'm not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I'm often…

Why not just use any of the number of existing satellite telecoms providers?

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